Religion in Reason

Tarek R. Dika is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, Canada. He is the author of Descartes’s Method: The Formation of the Subject of Science (2023) and the co-author, with W. Chris Hackett, of Quiet Powers of the Possible: Interviews in Contemporary French Phenomenology (2016) as well as numerous articles on Descartes, Heidegger, and contemporary French phenomenology. Martin Shuster is Professor of Philosophy and the Isaac Swift Distinguished Professor of Judaic Studies at University of North Carolina—Charlotte. In addition to many articles and essays, he is the author of Autonomy after Auschwitz: Adorno, German Idealism, and Modernity (2014), New Television: The Aesthetics and Politics of a Genre (2017), and How to Measure a World? A Philosophy of Judaism (2021). With Anne O’Byrne he is the editor of Logics of Genocide: The Structures of Violence and the Contemporary World (Routledge, 2020).

Introduction; 1 Theology on Edge-Tomoko Masuzawa; 2 Violence, Religion, Metaphysics-Gwenaëlle Aubry; 3 Imagination, Theolatry, and the Compulsion to Worship the Invisible-Elliot R. Wolfson; 4 Theology’s Figures of Abandon—Revisiting the Topic of Original Affirmation-Asja Szafraniec; 5 Theology as Searchlight: Miracle, Event, and the Place of the Natural-Willemien Otten; 6 Are Miracles Possible?: Avicenna Revisited-Sari Nusseibeih; 7 On Laws and Miracles-Ilit Ferber; 8 Spiritual Exercise in the Age of their Technological Reproducibility-Eli Friedlander; 9 Violence Inside-Out: Staring into the Sun with Georges Bataille-Samantha Carmel; 10 The Graft of the Cat: Derrida, Kofman and the Question of the Animal-Sarah Hammerschlag; 11 Corpus Mysticum: Henri de Lubac, Ernst Kantorowicz, Hent de Vries-Burcht Pranger; 12 Spiritual Exercises in Political Theory: John Rawls and Hent de Vries-Alexandre Lefebvre; 13 Adorno’s Secular Theology-Peter Gordon; 14 Religion as Pre-Text, Art as Counter-Text-Mieke Bal